Comments on: The future of dentistry https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/the-future-of-dentistry/ Independent dental news, views and reviews Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:52:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Josh Glavanic https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/the-future-of-dentistry/#comment-298677 Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:52:36 +0000 https://www.bitemagazine.com.au/?p=10731#comment-298677 There’s Dentist, & then there’s the People who are dentist who shouldn’t be.
I’m talking about the quality of 1 Dentist vs any other.
Like doctors or any profession that is licenced to make “professional” opinions regarding any living thing or profession, relating to the safety of said things. They all to often get Passed regardless of weather or not they can perform all duties that call for a Qualification!
I can say from experience that I was passed for Senior First Aid, a Cert III & IV in Small Business Management & Business Sales when I knew I didn’t have the necessary skills. It was apart of my course with the Australian Institute of Fitness to become a personal trainer with a Cert III & IV in Fitness & Health.
I learned enough to be able to train people but was more so from my personal gym training experience. The Institute was @ the time the leading place in Australia for sports education according to the goverment who are still claiming its a high demand skill in shortage. I would not have been able to manage a business or Administer first aid . I I received a certificate for Vocational studies and didn’t even understand what it was at the time!

We need to make sure people can perform what we are qualified to do, not just pass people for the money each Institute receives for the scaled “training”.
I did my extensive first aid course in 15 mins with 20 other people crowded around trying to see. Had no practice on a dummy or anything. I was a bit annoyed that a training institution would rush a 3 day course in 15 mins with Automatic passes to make it up to us? That wouldn’t have helped if any of us had ever tryed to administer first aid incorrectly. It’s reasons like this that I keep getting morally wrong advice and lies about my dental care. I can’t afford Dentist anymore & I’ve always been payed minimum wages with promises of advancement and thats just not how it works anymore. Doesn’t matter what degree I get as I’m now middle age & after being layed off my job whilst having 2 torn tendons from a work injury during covid. (That’s what Australian Life is now unfortunately) But any way during a pretty tough time already, I was attacked from behind & left for dead with my skull fractured in 3 places & heavy bleeding and swelling on my brain . Since then getting any decent medical care is rare if not too difficult to manage. The hospital is more concerned with liability & will even withhold vital information or lock hospital records for the wrong reason. It’s surprisingly a common occurrence and I’m over the unprofessional lack of care anymore.

I have a Dentist who can not even perform a simple extraction. She will call 1 procedure difficult whilst most Dentist will say its a simple thing. She didn’t try very hard to extract a tooth that probably didn’t even need extracting.
I was scared for the first time @ the Dentist I think. She gave up and decided to hack at the tooth with a saw that burn my gums and made the most horrible smell like burnt hair but different. I was in soo much pain from it and ive been warned that I may need to go to the city if pain still persists 2 days after. It’s the day after and something feels wrong … I woke up with sweat all over me and my whole mouth aches . It’s something that people shouldn’t be forced to deal with as dental pain is no joke & i reckon I’m pretty experienced with pain to know the difference between bearable & then pain that cripples you..makes you throw up and takes a toll on your body even.
Stop worrying about your profits when some people should be payed to go through the ordeals some hack dentists do.

I pretty much picked up that only ⅓ of Australian people can even afford your services. You are not medical practitioners as you couldn’t care less about “everyone’s oral health” only the people who can afford it ..

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